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hello, i m helena humphrey. four israeli hostages taken by hamas during the october 7th attacks have now been reunited with their families. but israeli forces in gaza killed scores of palestinians in the military operation to free them. israeli special forces raided two locations in nuseirat, in central gaza in broad daylight. one israeli soldier was killed. hamas says more than 200 palestinians were killed in the operation. an israeli military spokesman said there were under 100 palestinian casualties. the eu s top diplomat condemned the israeli raid. the us president has also spoken out at a press conference during his state visit to france. i want to echo president macron s comments welcoming the rescue of the hostages to theirfamilies in israel. we won t stop working until they are all home. and a ceasefire it is reached. that is essential. hugo bachega has more from you tel aviv. a dramatic rescue and she s free again. 25 year old noa argamani, captured by hamas on the 7th of october, and taken to gaza, is finally back in israel. she became one of the most well known faces of this crisis. her kidnapping recorded in this video. today, her ordeal came to an end. this is her, reunited with her dad. translation: please don tl forget that there are another 120 hostages in captivity. we must release them and make every effort in any way to bring them to israel and theirfamilies. by the way, it s my birthday, look what a gift i got. also freed, andrei kozlov, who is 27. shlomi ziv, 40, and almog meirjan, 21. eight months ago, they were in the nova music festival in southern israel when hamas gunmen attacked. more than 360 people were killed here. this morning, the israeli military carried out a raid of the nuseirat refugee camp in central gaza. there were heavy airstrikes. special forces went in. the military said this was a complex operation and based on intelligence information. the four hostages, it said, were found at two separate locations in the heart of the camp and were brought out under fire. israeli forces have been preparing for this rescue mission for weeks. they underwent intensive training. they risked their lives to save the lives of our hostages. if there was relief in israel, the operation meant yet more suffering in gaza. at the al aqsa hospital in nearby deir al balah, chaos and desperation. doctors struggled to treat all the wounded. many arrived already dead. translation: we were at home. a rocket hit us. my two cousins died and my other two cousins were seriously injured. they did nothing. they were sitting at home. the israeli prime minister, benjamin netanyahu, visited the freed hostages in a hospital near tel aviv. he s being urged to reach a ceasefire and hostage release deal with hamas. today s rescue could help lift some of the pressure. in the aftermath of the raid, our correspondent rushdi abualouf has been speaking to palestinians in gaza. yeah, i think the people were quite angry about the number of people killed in this rescue operation. some of them, they have told me that hamas should have accepted the ceasefire proposal that had been in the table for quite a long time. and instead of, like, you know, going in and killing people to get the hostages, they could have been released for also an exchange of some of the palestinian prisoners in the israeli jail. some of the people were also expressing their views towards the other side. they were defending hamas and they said what happened is very little comparing to the period of this war, eight months. i mean, one person told me that they managed to rescue four people after four months, and this is very little achievement where they have been defeated many times in places and hamas was able to kill some of them. so very, you know, they divide palestinians as always. they are always divided about the issue of hamas. many people are supporting what hamas is doing in gaza and they keep defending them. but today we noticed that many, many people in a very rare way were criticising hamas. and one person, he lost his family, as far as i remember, two months ago, in one of the air strikes. he wrote in his facebook and he said, why keeping hostages among a very crowded refugee camp in a market and put all of the people s life in risk? and some went more far and they said those who are sitting in the doha in qatar and controlling our life should go home. i d like to get to your reaction to the news of the four hostages getting released. thank you for having me. it is a glimmer of light in a sea of darkness and despair. for the first time in months, israelis have a moment to rejoice. and happy scenes of families being reunified. very happy to see it. i m very happy for the families getting their loved ones back after what must be the most horrible experience of eight months. sadly, however, we still have 120 hostages. we still have iranian proxies all around us aiming to kill israelis and to killjews. and we still have a lot of work to do to return to safety and security in israel. and as important as this event is, it is a drop in the ocean and there is still a lot of fighting left for us to be safe in our homeland. there is concern at the death toll among palestinians. do you think israeli forces anticipated the level of casualties incurred? i think the whole civilian issue here really needs to be analysed impartially and understood. according to the reports that i have got, and also the testaments and statements even made by hamas spokesperson, the israeli hostages were held by palestinian civilians in a palestinian civilian area. as regrettable as any loss of life is, we would have to investigate. who were the people who jailed these israelis for eight months? what was the role of the surrounding community of the thousands of palestinians who were aware of the fact that israeli hostages were being held in their midst? why were they complicit with hamas? we don t know they were necessarily complicit with hamas. the casualties incurred, there are reports of women and children among the dead. it is appearing to be a high civilian death toll. would there have been a warning to those civilians for them to get out on time? sure, of course, we cannot anticipate israel to be warning ahead of a grade two save hostages. because then the terrorists would kill the hostages, that would defeat the purpose. we do not know for certain that all of the people who died today were directly related to the effort to hold israeli civilians in gaza for eight months. there was a significant firefight according to testimony of israeli soldiers. there were rpgs, heavy fire, grenades being thrown, and we cannot rule out some of the alleged palestinian casualties were the result of reckless palestinian fire. it may have been israeli fire, but we don t know. the most important thing here, ithink, again, just like we saw in rafah three months ago, israeli civilians were held hostage by palestinian civilians. hamas gunmen guarding as well, but the bottom line, we have complicity of palestinian civilians. we have to say that we haven t been able to establish that at this stage. there will have to be a further investigation. are you concerned about the potential for this to jeopardise ceasefire plan? and of course the potential to see the rest of those hostages released, as you say? i think a ceasefire is not an aim to aspire to, but victory is what israel aspires to. victory in order to defend israeli civilians to bring hostages back home. and they ceasefire in my humble opinion is defeat for israel and a victory for hamas. it is not what israelis aspire to do, because a ceasefire would mean an existing hamas and it would mean further attacks against israel months or perhaps a year from now, and that is not something i think we should aspire to. we should do everything possible, and the world should help israel, in getting the hostages back by applying pressure on hamas to release the hostages, civilians, women, children, and of course also the soldiers taken unlawfully from israel and held in captivity in gaza. i think that should be the focus, and that is what i think should be the centre of attention. they said two people were killed in an israeli drone attack in southern lebanon. they say they launched the rate of they identified a hezbollah fighters in the area. they said they retaliated by firing rockets at the command centre in northern israel. joining me as aaron david miller who held as aaron david miller who held a number involved if us state department were healed formally for us policy on the arab israeli peace process, always good to having you with us. nevertheless, hostages as we have been discussing, also a high civilian death toll. i want to stop getting your reaction to the operation. from a perspective. reaction to the operation. from a perspective, i m reaction to the operation. from a perspective, i m sure - reaction to the operation. from a perspective, i m sure it- reaction to the operation. from a perspective, i m sure it was l a perspective, i m sure it was an extraordinary effort. it provides a nation still in the collective ptsd in the wake of the october seven attack. but seven hostages in almost nine months were freed. all of them freed from either apartment buildings or structures above ground. but not in time. it is clear israel is operating on the ground were able to develop and derive intelligence probably because the circle of palestinians aware of where this hostages were capped capped was larger than expected. it was a black and horrific day for a palestinians. it points, to me, that the reality of nine months into this war the israelis have succeeded was that i don t want to trivialise the effort in freeing seven hostages, 120 remain, 46 the israelis believe either were killed on october seven or died in captivity. the only pathway it seems to very large numbers of hostages and prevent mass custody events is not through successive military operations. if the last eight or nine months is any guide, but through diplomacy. the good news is the administration, both in administration produced a practical guide way forward. the bad news is the real urgency for closing this agreement exists only in debated administration. the biden administration. they have to move in a way to accept the package in its entirely. fix, package in its entirely. a region in the aim of reinforcing the sense of urgency, coming back to this operation, the eu top diplomat calling it a massacre. washington reportedly gave intelligent support for this operation to go ahead. do you think debated administration will be at ease with how this unfolded today and that high civilian death toll? civilian death toll? they are not at ease. civilian death toll? they are not at ease. if civilian death toll? they are not at ease. if you - civilian death toll? they are not at ease. if you look - civilian death toll? they are not at ease. if you look at l civilian death toll? they are l not at ease. if you look at the statement the president and national security advisor put out, there is no reference. i am, these are humans with consciences, the president, secretary of state, national security advisory, in a way that is quite clear, no months into this war the administration is pursuing what i would describe as a passive aggressive policy towards israel. they have yet towards israel. they have yet to compose a single cost or consequence that normal humans you or i would describe as sustained pressure. the reason they avoided a breach with the israeli prime minister is precisely because i think the president and i would agree with him here, believes the only way to de escalate this war, the only way to free hostages, prevent palestinian deaths, humanitarian assistance into gaza, it is an negotiated deal. that is the strategic cul de sac the administration now finds itself in. the israelis, your previous guest talked about the notion of victory which means what? hmmm a snack having no influence on gaza? hamas. the survival of leadership and families. and a cessation of hostilities in returning israeli forces from gaza. i cannot foresee right now, we are injune now, i cannot foresee anything other than perhaps if we re a phase one implementation which would create a six week ceasefire in exchange for a limited number of hostages and asymmetrical number of palestinian prisoners. six weeks of calm in gaza. it is not perfect, i don t know where it would leave but it is absolutely critical, being of hostages and 2.3 million palestinians that have to cope with this horrific environment. that is where the focus is going to remain.- focus is going to remain. aaron david miller. focus is going to remain. aaron david miller, as focus is going to remain. aaron david miller, as always, - focus is going to remain. aaron david miller, as always, thankl david miller, as always, thank you for sharing your thoughts. regular having me. thank you for having me. president biden has been hosted for a state dinner in france as a commemoration of the d day landings. there was a parade at the champs elysees. president biden spoke about the war in ukraine, saying the russian president is not going to stop at ukraine. our two countries are standing with the ukrainian people as they fight off putin s aggression. yesterday announced $225 million in new security assistance to ukraine and it is the sixth package we have provided since we signed the national security legislation earlier this year. i wish we could have done it when we want to do six months earlier but we got it done. with $61 billion in additional aid to ukraine and i command france and their leadership at all. you have provided $107 billion in assistance to ukraine since the war began. because we know what happens if putin succeeds in subjugating ukraine. putin is not going to stop at ukraine it is notjust ukraine, it is about much more than ukraine for the all of europe will be threatened. we are not going to let that happen, the united states is standing strong with ukraine, standing with allies and standard with france, we will not walk away. and standard with france, we will not walk away. parties are back in the will not walk away. parties are back in the election will not walk away. parties are back in the election trail. - politicians locked horns over the economy, armed forces, nhs, immigration and climate policy. the conservatives are pushing a permanent cut rishi sunak was putting on a brave face after the events of the past few days. keen to move on from his d day apology with an announcement to make temporary tax relief for first time homeowners permanent. his ministers will still having to fight on the political beaches. the prime minister has made a mistake, he s apologised for it and has apologised to those who would have been particularly hurt by it. so how has the prime minister s misstep gone down on the doorstep? we have been talking to conservative candidates, some have spoken about anger and disappointment. one of them despairingly said, whatever is going to happen next? will the prime minister s trousers fall down? others said voters haven t raised the issue at all, and one candidate said that those who are so vexed by this have already defected to labour or reform. elections are often about political theatre, but the snp say, in this campaign, the main westminster parties are sidestepping difficult decisions. the biggest issue that s not been spoken about is the fact there are £18 billion worth of cuts agreed to by the conservatives and endorsed by the labour party, and they are coming down the track towards us. but what about raising revenue? labour say, if they form the next government, then, just like the conservatives, they won t be able to increase tax thresholds in line with inflation any time soon. we will inherit the government s spending plans. i will be candid there are in those plans tax rises. i mean, the personal allowance, the personal allowance we all get in terms of our income tax, that is set to be frozen for several years. but the lib dems are courting voters with spending pledges, including a multibillion pound plan to plant 60 million trees a year. this is a capital investment over the next five years. you are right it is a significant investment. but i believe this is hugely important for our environment. it will help the fight against climate change. the main parties are preparing to launch their manifestos this week. only then will we know how well their policies will connect with the voters. iain watson, bbc news. the wife of the missing tv presenter michael mosley says his family refuses to lose hope. efforts are continuing to find the 67 year old, on the greek island of symi, where he s been missing since wednesday. joe inwood has the latest. just a few hours working on the hills of symi is enough to leave you exhausted. two hours. two hours? that is why there is such concern that michael mosley may still be up here after more than three days. the major search operation to find the missing broadcaster has today focused on the hills to the north of the village of pedi. so that search and rescue helicopter has been circling for maybe half an hour or so. there s been a huge amount of emergency services activity focused on those hills, and that s because we know from cctv taken at this spot that, on wednesday at about 1:30pm, two o clock, michael mosley passed this road and headed into those hills. the search is focusing on the hills because, finally, a picture has emerged of michael mosley s movements. he left the beach where he d been with his wife, clare, at about 1:30 on wednesday. he was then picked up on a camera at a coffee shop here. a second one at a restaurant here, and then, finally, the one at the marina, before he is thought to have headed into the hills. the disappearance of michael mosley has been a major story in greece. here on symi, locals have even joined the search, as have british holiday makers. this morning, she came in my room and said, let s go and look for michael. it would have been terrible. we know the paths, so we. we re just staying there. we re within 2km of where he s got to be, so it was, feeling quite helpless. at the heart of this is not just michael mosley, but his family as well. today, his wife clare released a statement. nor, it seems, will the greek authorities. they say they will continue their search until michael mosley is found. let s turn to some other important stories around the world. the world health organization is warning that help is urgently needed to prevent the collapse of the healthcare system in syria. it says half of all medical staff has fled the country. and those still there are working in conditions last seen hundreds of years ago. syria has faced 13 years of civil war, sanctions and a major earthquake just last year. demonstrators were out in the capital of hungary today, protesting against the ruling fidesz party ahead of sunday s european parliament elections. demonstrations against populist and far right parties have also been organised in other european countries, among them germany. european elections are currently happening in 27 countries across four days. the princess of wales has written to the irish guards, apologising for not being able to attend the trooping the colour on saturday. signed colonel catherine, she said she hoped to be back very soon. the irish guards shared video of the letter being read to the personnel this morning. the princess is having preventative chemotherapy for cancer. an american veteran who flew back to france for the d day celebrations got married near the beaches where the allies landed 80 years ago. harold terens, who is 100 years old, married his 96 year old fiancee, jeanne swerlin, in the small town of carentan les marais. mr terens was a radio technician, who assisted fighter pilots in the skies over normandy and called their wedding day the best one of his life. stay with us here on bbc news. hello. if you are hoping for some properly warm weather over the next few days, i suspect this forecast pa rt part two of the weekend doesn t look quite as good and will start chilly but some weather fronts pushing down from this weather front approaching the north west. showers merging together. unsettled and breezy shower in the north turning claudia for northern ireland but clear skies of a large pot of england and wales and will turn chilly for most. we start off with quite a bit of sunshine. scotland, england and wales, cloudy skies for northern ireland, southwest scotland, in towards north west england, north wales. and that cloud, with splashes of rain, will spill south eastwards through the day. so it will turn cloudy across much of england and wales, probably the best of the sunshine across the far southwest, and the northern half of scotland doing 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good to have you with us. four is really hostages taken by hamas during the october seven attacks have been reunited with theirfamilies. israeli forces in gaza killed scores of palestinians in the operation to free them. special forces raided two locations in broad daylight. one soldier was killed. thomas says that more than 200 palestinians were killed in the operation. a military is spokesman said they were under 100 palestinian casualties. a top diplomat condemned the raid and in a post on xjoseph borrell wrote that reports from gaza of another massacre room calling. we condemn this in the strongest terms, the bloodbath must end immediately. joe biden s free step plan is put forward as a way to end the killing. the us president spoke out. here is a press conference. i out. here is a press conference.- out. here is a press conference. ., ., . ., conference. i want to echo the comments conference. i want to echo the comments of conference. i want to echo the comments of president - conference. i want to echo the | comments of president macron welcoming the safe rescue of four hostages who were returned to their families in four hostages who were returned to theirfamilies in israel. we will not stop working until all hostages come home and a ceasefire is reached. that is essential to happen. a£111 essentialto happen. our correspondent essentialto happen. our correspondent has - essential to happen. our correspondent has more from tel aviv. a dramatic rescue and she s free again. 25 year old noa argamani, captured by hamas on the 7th of october, and taken to gaza, is finally back in israel. she became one of the most well known faces of this crisis. her kidnapping recorded in this video. today, her ordeal came to an end. this is her, reunited with her dad. translation: please don t| forget that there are another 120 hostages in captivity. we must release them and make every effort in any way to bring them to israel and theirfamilies. by the way, it s my birthday, look what a gift i got. also freed, andrei kozlov, who is 27. shlomi ziv, 40, and almog meirjan, 21. eight months ago, they were in the nova music festival in southern israel when hamas gunmen attacked. more than 360 people were killed here. this morning, the israeli military carried out a raid of the nuseirat refugee camp in central gaza. there were heavy airstrikes. special forces went in. the military said this was a complex operation and based on intelligence information. the four hostages, it said, were found at two separate locations in the heart of the camp and were brought out under fire. israeli forces have been preparing for this rescue mission for weeks. they underwent intensive training. they risked their lives to save the lives of our hostages. if there was relief in israel, the operation meant yet more suffering in gaza. at the al aqsa hospital in nearby deir al balah, you chaos and desperation. doctors struggled to treat all the wounded. many arrived already dead. translation: we were at home. a rocket hit us. my two cousins died and my other two cousins were seriously injured. they did nothing. they were sitting at home. the israeli prime minister, benjamin netanyahu, visited the freed hostages in a hospital near tel aviv. he s being urged to reach a ceasefire and hostage release deal with hamas. today s rescue could help lift some of the pressure. in the aftermath of that raid our correspondent has been speaking to palestinians in gaza. i speaking to palestinians in gaza. ~ , ., , gaza. i think the people were an: gaza. i think the people were angry about gaza. i think the people were angry about the gaza. i think the people were angry about the number - gaza. i think the people were angry about the number of i angry about the number of people killed in this rescue operation. some of them told me that hamas should have accepted the ceasefire proposal that had been on the table for a long time and instead of, going in and killing people to get the hostages they could have been released for an exchange of palestinian prisoners in israeli jails. some people are also expressing their view towards the other side, they were defending hamas and see what happened is very little compared to the period of eight months. one person told me they rescued four people after four months and this is very little achievement where they have been defeated many times and in many places and hamas was able to kill some of them. so it divides palestinians. they are always divided about the issue of hamas. many people are not supporting what hamas is doing in gaza and they keep defending them but today we noticed that many people were criticising hamas and one person lost his family in one of the airstrikes two months ago. he said why are you keeping hostages in a crowded refugee camp, in a market? and putting everybody s life at risk. some went further and said that those who are sitting in the higher in cutter and control our lives should go home. ., , ,., ~ ., home. earlier i spoke with a former spokesman - home. earlier i spoke with a former spokesman for - home. earlier i spoke with a former spokesman for the i former spokesman for the israeli defence forces and a senior fellow at the foundation for defence of democracy. i want to begin by getting your reaction to the news of the four hostages being released. thank you for having me. it is a glimmer of light in a sea of darkness and despair and for the first time in months is raley s have a moment to rejoice and happy scenes of families being reunified. happy to see it and very happy for the families who now get their loved ones back after what must be the most horrible experience of eight months. sadly, however, we still have 120 hostages. we still have a rainy and proxies all around us aiming to kill israelis and to kill the jewish people aiming to kill israelis and to kill thejewish people and we still have a lot of work to do in order to return to safety and security in israel and as important as this event is it is a drop in the ocean and there is still a lot of fighting left for us to be safe in our homeland. in our homeland. jonathan, there is concern in our homeland. jonathan, there is concern about - in our homeland. jonathan, there is concern about the l there is concern about the death toll among palestinians. do you think israeli forces anticipated the level of casualties incurred? i think the whole casualties incurred? i think the whole civilian - casualties incurred? i think the whole civilian issue - casualties incurred? i thinkl the whole civilian issue here really needs to be analysed impartially and understood. according to the reports that i have gotten and also statements made by hamas spokes person, the israeli hostages were held and jailed by palestinian civilians in a palestinian civilians in a palestinian civilian area and as regrettable as any loss of life is i think you would have to investigate who the people who jailed these israeli civilians for eight months, why did they do it? what was the role of the surrounding community and the hundreds if not thousands of palestinians who for sure were aware of the fact that israeli hostages were being held in their midst and why were they complicit with hamas? jonathan, we do not know complicit with hamas? jonathan, we do not know that complicit with hamas? jonathan, we do not know that they - complicit with hamas? jonathan, we do not know that they were . we do not know that they were necessarily complicit. all of the casualties incurred, there are reports of women, of children who are among the dead. it appears to be a high civilian death toll. would there have been a warning to those civilians to get out on time? ~ .., ., those civilians to get out on time? ., ., . time? we cannot anticipate israel to be time? we cannot anticipate israel to be warning - time? we cannot anticipate israel to be warning aheadl time? we cannot anticipate | israel to be warning ahead of time? we cannot anticipate i israel to be warning ahead of a raid to extract or save hostages because then what the terrorists will do is kill the hostages and that would defeat the purpose. of course we cannot expect that. yes, i agree with you that we do not know for certain that all of the people who may have died today were directly related to the efforts to jail and hold israeli civilians in gaza for eight months. there was a significant firefight according to testimony of australian israeli soldiers. there were rockets, grenades and heavy machine gun fire and we cannot rule out that at least some of the alleged palestinian colours realties were a result of reckless palestinian fire. it may have been israeli fire, we do not know. of the important thing is, again, just like we saw in rafah three months ago, israeli civilians were held hostage by palestinian civilians. hamas armed gunman guiding as well but the bottom line is we have complicity of palestinian civilians who are. we have not been able are. we have not beenable able to establish that at this stage and has you have pointed out that will need to be a further investigation. i want to net further investigation. i want to get your further investigation. i want to get your thoughts - further investigation. i want to get your thoughts as - further investigation. i want to get your thoughts as to l to get your thoughts as to whether you are concerned about the potential for this to jeopardise a ceasefire plan and the potential to see the rest of those hostages released. i think the ceasefire is not an aim to aspire to victory is what israel aspires to. victory in order to defend israeli civilians and bring them back home. victory in order to get hostages back and a ceasefire, in my humble opinion is defeat for israel and a victory for hamas and it is not what is raley s aspire to do because a ceasefire would mean an existing hamas and it would mean further attacks against israel months or a year from now and that is not something i think we should aspire to. we should do everything possible in the world should help israel to get hostages back through applying pressure on hamas to release hostages, release civilians, women and children and then the soldiers who were taken unlawfully from israel and are being held in captivity in gaza. i think that should be the focus and that is what i think should be the centre of attention. think should be the centre of attention- think should be the centre of attention. ~ ., ., ., attention. meanwhile along the border between attention. meanwhile along the border between israel - attention. meanwhile along the border between israel and - border between israel and lebanon there has been an exchange of fire between hezbollah and israeli forces. two people were killed in a drone attack. the israeli military said its forces launched the rate after it identified a hezbollah fighter in the area. hezbollah said its fighters retaliated by firing rockets at an israeli military command centre. i spoke earlier with a us state department official from 1978 2003 who helped formulate the us policy on the israeli arab peace process. a release of hostages as we have been discussing and as we have been discussing and a high civilian death toll. i want to start by getting your reaction to the operation. from a military perspective i am sure it was an extraordinary. it provides a nation that is still in a collective ptsd with some momentary help. but seven hostages in almost nine months were free. all of them, i might add free from either apartment buildings or structures that were above ground, not in tunnels. so it is clear to me that israeli operating on the ground were able to develop and arrive intelligence, probably because the circle of palestinians who are aware of where these hostages were kept are not in tunnels, much larger than we originally expected. it was a wonderful day for israel is but a black day for palestinians and that points to me that the reality that nine months into this war the israelis have succeeded. i don t want to trivialise the effort. 46 are believed to be killed on october seven or died in captivity. so the only pathway to me it seems to free large numbers of hostages and prevent mass casualty events is not through successive military operations if the eight last eight or nine months is any guide, but through diplomacy and the good news here is that the biden administration has produced a practical pathway forward. i think the bad news is that the real urgency for clothing this agreement exists only with the biden administration. neitherthe government of israel nor hamas is moved to make the kind of decisions that would accept the package in its entirety. as we know the us secretary of state is in the region with the aim of reinforcing that sense of urgency. returning to the operation we had the eu top diplomat calling it a massacre according tojoseph borrell. washington gave intelligence support for this operation to go ahead. do you think the biden administration will be at ease with how this unfolded today and the high civilian death toll? today and the high civilian death toll? they are not at ease. death toll? they are not at ease- if death toll? they are not at ease- if you death toll? they are not at ease. if you look death toll? they are not at ease. if you look at - death toll? they are not at ease. if you look at the - ease. if you look at the statement that the president and the national security adviser put out there is no reference. i am certain, to palestinian civilian deaths. i don t think. these are humans with consciences consciences. the president, the secretary of state, the national security adviser. but in a way it is clear that almost nine months into this war the administration is pursuing what i would describe to you as a passive aggressive policy towards israel. they have yet towards israel. they have yet to impose a single consequence that normal humans like you or i would describe as sustained pressure. the reason they have avoided an open break or breach with the israeli prime minister is precisely because i think the president and i would agree with him here, believes that the only way to de escalate this war, the only way he has to prevent palestinian deaths and surging humanitarian assistance into gaza is a negotiated deal and that is the strategic cul de sac that the administration now finds itself. the israelis, you heard your previous guest talk about the notion of victory which means what? hamas having no influence in gaza? that is unrealistic. hamas is trading time tunnelling and hostages for what it wants and what it wants is the survival of the senior leadership and their families and the preservation is of the influence of hamas which means a cessation of hostilities in the withdrawal of forces from gaza. i cannot foresee right now, we are now injune, i cannot foresee in june, i cannot foresee anything injune, i cannot foresee anything other than, perhaps if lucky, a phase one implementation which would create a six week ceasefire in exchange for a limited number of hostages and an asymmetrical number of palestinian prisoners. six weeks of calm in gaza. it is not perfect and i don t know where it would lead but it is absolutely critical both for the well being of the hostages and the 2.3 million palestinians who have to cope with this horrific environment over the last eight or nine months. i think that is where the focus is going to remain. as we mentioned joe biden is on a two day state visit to france following commemorations marking the 80th anniversary of the d day landings. emmanuel macron hosted him for a state in on saturday night and earlier there was a parade along the champs elysses and a visit to the tomb of the unknown soldier and a meeting with business leaders. mr biden mr macron held a press conference on saturday and during his speech president biden spoke about the war in ukraine saying that russia s president vladimir let putin is not going to stop ukraine. fiur not going to stop ukraine. our two countries not going to stop ukraine. our two countries are not going to stop ukraine. oi two countries are standing with ukrainian people as we spied against putin s aggression. yesterday i announced $225 million in new security assistance, that is the sixth package we have provided since we signed the national security legislation earlier this year. i wish we could have done it when we wanted to six months earlier, but we got it done. $61 billion in additional aid to ukraine and i commend france and our european allies for their leadership as well. the eu has proved and provided over 107 billion dollars in assistance to ukraine since the war began because we know what happens if putin succeeds in subjugating ukraine. and we will not stop, putin will not stop at ukraine. it is notjust ukraine, it is about much more than ukraine. all of europe will be threatened. we will not let that happen. the united states stands strong with ukraine, we stand with our allies and with france and we will not walk away. the allies and with france and we will not walk away. allies and with france and we will not walk away. the man who assaulted the will not walk away. the man who assaulted the danish will not walk away. the man who assaulted the danish prime - assaulted the danish prime minister has been remanded in custody for 12 days. a 39 year old polish man is said to have been drunk and under the influence of drugs at the time of the attack on friday night. the man is reported to have struck the politician on this shoulder forcing her to stumble and suffer minor whiplash injuries. the prime minister said she shaken but fine. in the uk, parties are back on the campaign trail following the seven way debate last night. conservatives are pushing for a permanent card to taxes for the first time and labour makers making economic pledges. ian watson has the latest. i lljust try and get the sign in! rishi sunak was putting a brave face on the events of the past few days. is this taking over from those fidget spinners? he was keen to move on from his d day apology with an announcement to make temporary tax relief for first time homeowners permanent. but his ministers were still having to fight on the political beaches. the prime minister has made a mistake, he s apologised for it and has apologised to those who would have been particularly hurt by it. so how has the prime minister s misstep gone down on the doorstep? we have been talking to conservative candidates, some have spoken about anger and disappointment. one of them despairingly said, whatever is going to happen next? will the prime minister s trousers fall down? others said voters haven t raised the issue at all, and one candidate said that those who are so vexed by this have already defected to labour or reform. elections are often about political theatre, but the snp say, in this campaign, the main westminster parties are sidestepping difficult decisions. the biggest issue that s not been spoken about is the fact there are £18 billion worth of cuts agreed to by the conservatives and endorsed by the labour party, and they are coming down the track towards us. but what about raising revenue? labour say, if they form the next government, then, just like the conservatives, they won t be able to increase tax thresholds in line with inflation any time soon. we will inherit the government s spending plans. i will be candid there are in those plans tax rises. i mean, the personal allowance, the personal allowance we all get in terms of our income tax, that is set to be frozen for several years. but the lib dems are courting voters with spending pledges, including a multibillion pound plan to plant 60 million trees a year. this is a capital investment over the next five years. you are right it is a significant investment. but i believe this is hugely important for our environment. it will help the fight against climate change. the main parties are preparing to launch their manifestos this week. only then will we know how well their policies will connect with the voters. iain watson, bbc news. the wife of the missing tv presenter michael mosley says his family refuses to lose hope. efforts are continuing to find the 67 year old on the greek island of symi, where he s been missing since wednesday. joe inwood has the latest. just a few hours working on the hills of symi is enough to leave you exhausted. two hours. two hours? that is why there is such concern that michael mosley may still be up here after more than three days. the major search operation to find the missing broadcaster has today focused on the hills to the north of the village of pedi. so that search and rescue helicopter has been circling for maybe half an hour or so. there s been a huge amount of emergency services activity focused on those hills, and that s because we know from cctv taken at this spot that, on wednesday at about 1:30pm, two o clock, michael mosley passed this road and headed into those hills. the search is focusing on the hills because, finally, a picture has emerged of michael mosley s movements. he left the beach where he d been with his wife, clare, at about 1:30 on wednesday. he was then picked up on a camera at a coffee shop here. a second one at a restaurant here, and then, finally, the one at the marina, before he is thought to have headed into the hills. the disappearance of michael mosley has been a major story in greece. regis points here on symi, locals have even joined the search, as have british holiday makers. this morning, she came in my room and said, let s go and look for michael. it would have been terrible. we know the paths, so we. we re just staying there. we re within 2km of where he s got to be, so it was, feeling quite helpless. at the heart of this is not just michael mosley, but his family as well. today, his wife clare released a statement: nor, it seems, will the greek authorities. they say they will continue their search until michael mosley is found. let s turn to some other important stories around the world. . ., ., world. the world health organization world. the world health organization wants - world. the world health organization wants that| world. the world health - organization wants that help is urgently needed to prevent the collapse of the healthcare system in syria. it says half of all medical staff have fled the country and those still there are working in conditions last seen hundreds of years ago. syria has faced 13 years of civil war sanctions and a major earthquake last year. demonstrators were out in the capital of hungary today protesting against the ruling party ahead of the european parliament elections on sunday. demonstrations against populist and far right parties have also been organised in other countries including germany. those elections are currently happening in 27 elections that i countries across four days. the princess of wales road to the irish guards and apologised for being unable to attend tripping of the colour on saturday. she said she hoped to be back very soon. the irish guards shared video of the letter being read to personnel this morning. the princess is currently undergoing preventative chemotherapy for cancer. and before we go, june marks pride month and celebrations have kicked off around the world on saturday here in washington, dc these are the scenes as thousands celebrated with the lgbt queue plus community. the parade route acknowledges the evolution of the lgbt queue plus neighbourhoods in the city. in europe the 28th rainbow parade took place in vienna. there has been a record turnout with over 340,000 people taking part. thank you for your company, people taking part. thank you foryour company, good people taking part. thank you for your company, good night. hello there. it s been a pretty decent start to the weekend. there was a good deal of sunshine around across most of the country. a bit of cloud here and there, a few showers, mostly in the north. part two of the weekend doesn t look quite as good. it will start sunny, quite chilly. but we ve got a couple of weather fronts pushing down from the northwest that will increase cloud through the day, with some splashes of rain. now, we ve got this weather front approaching the northwest of the country to move through this evening. showers merging together to produce longer spells of rain for the north and west of scotland. so unsettled, breezy, showery in the north, turning cloudier for northern ireland, but clearer skies for large parts of england and wales, with lighter winds here. so it will turn chilly for most. single digits, i think, for the majority of the country. but with more cloud across northern ireland, we will fall to around 10 degrees in belfast. so sunday, then, we ve got low pressure still towards the norwegian sea there, bringing northern westerly winds into the country. we start off with quite a bit of sunshine. scotland, england and wales, cloudy skies for northern ireland, southwest scotland, in towards north west england, north wales. and that cloud, with splashes of rain, will spill south eastwards through the day. so it will turn cloudy across much of england and wales, probably the best of the sunshine across the far southwest, and the northern half of scotland doing pretty well, with sunny spells. but there will be blustery showers here and a cooler day to come, i think, because of more cloud around temperatures of about 12 to 17 degrees. as we move through sunday night, that area of rain splashes across the irish sea, into much of england and wales, becomes confined to southern and eastern areas by the end of the night. so where we have the cloud and the rain, then, a less cold night here, 10 to 12 degrees under clearer skies. further north, it will turn chilly. we start to pick up a northerly wind as we move into monday. that rain slowly clears away from the south and east. it may take a while to clear the east of england. eventually, it will do. then it s a bright day for most, sunshine and showers. most of these across the northern half of scotland, where they will be quite blustery and a chilly northerly wind at that. temperatures, 10 to 14 degrees in the north, 15 to 17 further south, giving some sunny spells. and we hold on to this chilly northerly wind through tuesday, even into wednesday as well. before low pressure starts to move in from the southwest, that ll cut off the chilly northerly and temperatures will slowly recover towards the end of the week. but it s going to be a fairly unsettled and a cool week to come, with a little bit of sunshine here and there. this is bbc news. we will have the headlines and all the main stories for you at the top of the hour, straight after this programme. two women one serb, one albanian prepared to put aside the divisions that tore their worlds apart. the late 1990s conflict between serb forces and albanian insurgents for the future of the former yugoslav province of kosovo left thousands dead.

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Time, they said they wished, on reflection, they had gone to the police. but they had to sit there and watch these doctors really battle with their own consciences, really, to realise the enormity of what it was that was going on on that unit. obviously, a lot of the parents in this case, they had their statements read, so the prosecuting barrister would read a great statements on the final hours or moments of one of the child s lives, and there were a couple of sets of parents who came in, and as i say, they had to relive what must have been the worst evening of their life, sometimes in dramatic circumstance, where the mother of one baby, i think we touched on it early, baby e, the mother arrived to hear her child making horrendous sounds, lucy letby being alone with a baby, and a nurse told the mother to go back up to the ward, that a

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Possibilities of things like the classic example, earl warren, who oversaw, in addition to brown v. board of education, a number of other legal precedents on the supreme court that people thought, you know, liberalized american society, certainly liberalized american jurisprudence, but he was appointed by a republican president, eisenhower, and the most distinct that people knew about earl warren, prior to him arriving on the bench, was that he had overseen the internment of the japanese in california during world war ii. there was nothing about him that suggested that he was going to become the kind of avatar of liberal jurisprudence that his name is now associated with. the possibility that people can intellectually grow and develop, they can follow their intellect, their consciences on the bench seems to be fore closed, because there s not a one-to-one relationship between republican

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Transcripts for CNN CNN Primetime 20240604 01:23:00

Honoring their consciences. i think some of them just think it s what s best for them. but i think people should honor their conscience. they shouldn t just get behind somebody because the rnc is behind them, if they feel like this person would be a bad president, they shouldn t be saying that they support them. we spoke to her about what she believes trump is going to do about the debates. he s threatening to boycott them. this is what she just said. you haven t received any assurances from the trump team that he s going to be on the debate stage. is that what you re saying? he has not indicated yet what he s going to do. there s a very good chance he doesn t show up. he s indicated more than not that he s not planning to participate in the debate. from a communications standpoint and messaging standpoint, if he s 30 to 40 points ahead in a primary, he probably shouldn t do debate from that standpoint. as we get to the general election, it s a completely

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Transcripts for FOXNEWS Outnumbered 20240604 16:03:00

How we treat our veterans in this country. my wife and i no one is perfect. every time we see a police officer or a military or soldier, we make our boys walk up to them by themselves, shake their hand and say thank you. that is it. can we start building a culture of thanks for our veterans in this country? people that serve honorable and defend our freedoms if we don t that mob of 40 people, they don t understand. there are countries that live on their knees, we don t. we have to start saying thank you. harris: you know, kylie kay leigh where are the consciences of these children. kayleigh: yes. harris: they are in ecosystem in the greatest country in the world why isn t that rubbing off on them.

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Transcripts for CNN CNN This Morning 20240604 12:23:00

Rtc signaled that they intend to move on big ticket items like abortion rights, gun rights in the states voting laws, so certainly big implications going forward, poppy. well, what are democrats saying? well there are angry about this move, and it were surprised even though it had been talking about for some time that democrats saying that she misrepresented herself and her policies to her constituents that voted her into office by a big majority, and it was also notable that the white house came out with a statement after this announcement, really acknowledging the big legislative ticket items that are up for grabs that north carolina s will have to vote on now, and with these new super majorities, it makes it much harder for them. kratz has stopped some of them. the white house, saying bedrock american freedoms are at stake in votes in north carolina. and they re calling on those who are in the state house to vote. they say their consciences rather than the politics of the moment. fascinating someone. thank you very much. north carolina. we go

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Transcripts for FOXNEWS Fox News Live 20240604 21:25:00

federal law guarantees anyway they can see their patients, treat them as they really are, follow medical judgment, not experiment on them and respect their consciences, above all do no harm to their patients. laura: doctor marc siegel, always good to see you. if you could explain what the health department does, sounds like gender transition surgeries are happening frequently. tell us about it. we have been reporting on it for a while now, what is the age? 1.7 million people identify as transgender. gendered dysphoria is less than one% of children.

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Transcripts for FOXNEWS Americas Newsroom 20240604 15:42:00

bill: pete will join us in a minute. stay tuned. the biden health department requires doctors to perform gender transition surgeries and prescribe puberty blockers even against their medical judgment. now there are some doctors pushing back by suing the administration. lu lucas doctors the suing the administration whether hhs can force doctors to performed gender reassignment surgeries on young people. one attorney is accusing the government of overreach. what our doctors hope to do is what the first amendment and federal law guarantees them anyway. they can go to see their patients. give them the best medicine. follow good medical judgment not experiment on them and respect their consciences. above all to do no harm to their

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